In this vein Chip Kelley just got fired as the Raiders OC. Speculation is he’ll go back to a college program. Good example of a guy who was a hot coach who struggled at UCLA.
Yes. And as the person who posted the initial false info, I do look for confirmation that it's legit before reposting. I usually check for multiple sources, but in this case I went with the info being retweeted by journalists ... who I assume would know better. My fault.
Yeah as a condition for paying the Diaco buyout. You can't really put that on DB
In hindsight keeping Diaco would have been better than bringing in Edsall. I can't think of 1 good thing that came from the REstored era.
I can think of some really good players that came because of RE that helped. 3 in the NFL in Lundt, Van Demark and Haynes to start. Nate Carter too. Diaco cared about height and nothing else when it came to recruiting.
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Go back to college as an OC? I thought he left UCLA and took the OC job at Ohio St, to get away from being a head coach.
Diaco had to go. He was a terrible recruiter and as we found out, not much better at clock management.
Yeah I guess that is good but he also had them playing at UMass levels of bad with a loss to HC and a miracle hang on by your nails win over Yale. Coulda got a guy from the MAC for what they paid him and not been nearly as terrible. Team looked like they never even practiced on gamedays.
Edsall was always an excellent evaluator of defensive talent particularly raw or unpolished prospects. Edsall 1.0 was also great at developing them. Some his 2000s teams were stockpiled with unheralded prospects that turned into NFL players.
If you look at RE's recruits- they did better as they got older (like most recruits). He wasn't here for a lot of these guys last few years, but his last years seniors were his guys. Won a bowl game with them. It's Jimmie and Joe's not X and O's.
He did. Then took the OC job in the NFL. I’m pretty sure he was one step away from being dumped at UCLA. His best year was 9-4. His final year he went 8-5. He was basically a.500 coach at UCLA. The guy he replaced had a much better record.
The guy sat Arkeel Newsome in favor of Kevin Mensah. Enough said.
I agree. The guy basically quit on the team and spent the Covid year golfing in Florida collecting a paycheck.
He also hired Gbandi who has the soccer team back in the Sweet Sixteen. And he doesn't get full blame for 2.0. Let's be real, he had just gotten there.
Yeah, UCLA thought they could do better
